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Government Payments And Such
Jul. 15th, 2024 11:22 amI got two government payments to my bank account today, one was the Carbon Tax Rebate, and I can't remember what the other one was but it was substantial. I was expecting the CTR one but not the other one, so I was surprised when I opened my banking app this morning.
Anyway, so I bought the books I had in the thriftbooks.com cart (My Life With The Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall, The Dog Who Rescues Cats by Philip Gonzalez & Leonore Fleischer, The Parrot Who Owns Me by Joanna Burger and Living Free by Joy Adamson, all for Grandma, and The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters for myself), as well as a bunch of stuff from my Amazon cart: all the chemicals I need to start cycling the axolotl tank, the underwater filter, the air pump, the cooling fans, ink for my printer and a copy of American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
I also bought two t-shirts from teepublic, one that's a generalized fandom one (that somehow encompasses all my main fandoms) and one that's a Supernatural one, because my Tuesday Pig n' a Poke one can only be worn on Tuesdays, but only because of my OCD brain. :|
Other than that...
HH is up to 140 pages and counting. I posted Chapter One the other day and got a (predictably) minimal response. I have Chapter Two and Chapter Three ready to go for next Friday and the Friday after that, though they may get edited a little in the meantime. Chapters seem to be averaging 15-->17 pages, which is respectable. I'm good with that. Hopefully when I start posting more chapters more people will start getting interested in it? idk we'll see. Probably interest won't go up much until I get to the smutty stuff, if I'm being honest with myself.
I think I've decided for sure that SS is going to be top!Dean and bottom!Cas again after all, just because that's what I prefer. It's not what most of the fandom writes, but I would rather enjoy writing the story than cater to the fandom in general, if that makes sense.
But I've also decided that after I'm done HH, and probably Cheap Motel and Counting Scars, before I write SS, I'm going to pick one of my original novels and sit down and write it. I'm having fun with SPN fic right now, but being so productive has me thinking that I should be working on original stuff, not just fan stuff. So basically a pause before SS for me to write a book. Seems reasonable. Now I just have to decide which one. :|
I have it narrowed down to My Zombie, The Order of Delphi, MOA or TKA. Ideally I would love to finish up TKA, but I don't know if I'm ready for that yet, I have a lot of trauma to work through with TKA, still, unfortunately. Talking with Poe again is helping, but it's going to be a long road. So maybe My Zombie is my second choice? Still thinking about it...
Anyway, so I bought the books I had in the thriftbooks.com cart (My Life With The Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall, The Dog Who Rescues Cats by Philip Gonzalez & Leonore Fleischer, The Parrot Who Owns Me by Joanna Burger and Living Free by Joy Adamson, all for Grandma, and The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters for myself), as well as a bunch of stuff from my Amazon cart: all the chemicals I need to start cycling the axolotl tank, the underwater filter, the air pump, the cooling fans, ink for my printer and a copy of American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
I also bought two t-shirts from teepublic, one that's a generalized fandom one (that somehow encompasses all my main fandoms) and one that's a Supernatural one, because my Tuesday Pig n' a Poke one can only be worn on Tuesdays, but only because of my OCD brain. :|
Other than that...
HH is up to 140 pages and counting. I posted Chapter One the other day and got a (predictably) minimal response. I have Chapter Two and Chapter Three ready to go for next Friday and the Friday after that, though they may get edited a little in the meantime. Chapters seem to be averaging 15-->17 pages, which is respectable. I'm good with that. Hopefully when I start posting more chapters more people will start getting interested in it? idk we'll see. Probably interest won't go up much until I get to the smutty stuff, if I'm being honest with myself.
I think I've decided for sure that SS is going to be top!Dean and bottom!Cas again after all, just because that's what I prefer. It's not what most of the fandom writes, but I would rather enjoy writing the story than cater to the fandom in general, if that makes sense.
But I've also decided that after I'm done HH, and probably Cheap Motel and Counting Scars, before I write SS, I'm going to pick one of my original novels and sit down and write it. I'm having fun with SPN fic right now, but being so productive has me thinking that I should be working on original stuff, not just fan stuff. So basically a pause before SS for me to write a book. Seems reasonable. Now I just have to decide which one. :|
I have it narrowed down to My Zombie, The Order of Delphi, MOA or TKA. Ideally I would love to finish up TKA, but I don't know if I'm ready for that yet, I have a lot of trauma to work through with TKA, still, unfortunately. Talking with Poe again is helping, but it's going to be a long road. So maybe My Zombie is my second choice? Still thinking about it...
